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Stan Laurel Biography
Birth Name:
Arthur Stanley Jefferson
Birth Place:
Ulverston, Lancashire, England
Profession
Actor, comedian
Fast Facts
- Understudied Charlie Chaplin early in his stage career
- Appeared in more than 100 films (both shorts and features) with Oliver Hardy
- Insisted upon personally responding to the thousands of fan letters he received throughout his career
- Received a star on the Walk of Fame in 1960
- Was eulogized at his 1965 funeral by Dick Van Dyke, whom he had become a close friend with and mentor to late in his life
- Appeared in the collage on the cover of the legendary Beatles album Sgt
- Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Relationships
- Edward Jefferson -- Brother
- Gordon Jefferson -- Brother
- Sydney Jefferson -- Brother
- Lois Laurel Hawes -- Daughter
- Charlotte Mae Dahlberg -- Ex-significant Other
- Lois Neilson -- Ex-wife
- Vera Ivanova Shuvalova -- Ex-wife
- Virginia Ruth Rogers -- Ex-wife
- Arthur Jefferson -- Father
- Margaret Jefferson -- Mother
- Beatrice Olga Healey -- Sister
- Stanley Robert Laurel -- Son
- Ida Kitaeva Raphael -- Wife